Alexei Navalny’s team found out that the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, was hidden in the tax service register under the pseudonym Sergei Terentyev. The investigation was published on the Navalny Live YouTube channel. Its author, Sergei Yezhov, says that the passport and TIN numbers, as well as Terentyev’s date of birth, completely coincide with the data of Igor Sechin, but in fact such a person does not exist.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court of Kemerovo sentenced 41-year-old pathologist Alexander Chervov to 17.5 years in prison in the case of damage to power lines. This was reported by the anonymous telegram channel “Kuzbass without extremism”, which is associated with the security forces. The post has now been deleted. Chervov was sentenced on August 4; drew attention the Sibir.Realii publication to the case file on the court’s website.

On the night of August 9, the Moscow region was attacked by two drones. this . announced Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin “There was an attempt to fly two combat drones into the city. Both were shot down by air defense. One is in the Domodedovo area, the second is in the Minsk Highway area,” he wrote in his Telegram channel. Sobyanin added that emergency services are working at the site of the drone crash. Information about the drone attack was also confirmed by the Ministry of Defense.

The Russian army launched a missile attack on the city of Zaporozhye. The shell hit a residential area, killing three people, said . Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky According to the secretary of the Zaporozhye city council, Anatoly Kurtev, seven more people were also injured as a result of the attack. He wrote that windows were broken in five high-rise buildings and three educational institutions in the city.

Latvia will strengthen border security in the administrative territories of Ludza, Kraslava, Augsdaugava regions and Daugavpils, which border Russia and Belarus. this The Latvian government reported . They clarified that the enhanced border security regime will begin to operate on August 11.

In Krasnoyarsk, Elena Gegiya, an employee of the legal department of the RN-Vankor company, was fired because of anti-war publications on Instagram. about this She told to the publication “Siberia. Realities." According to Gegia, she entered into an agreement with the company to terminate the employment contract, although “in fact this was done at the insistence of the employer.” Gegia published anti-war stories on Instagram on April 21, 2023.

On the morning of August 9 in Sergiev Posad, a powerful explosion occurred on the territory of the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant. According to local authorities, a warehouse rented by the Piro-Ross company exploded.

The FSB reported on the arrest of a suspect in the annexed Crimea for blowing up a gas pipeline in June 2023. this with reference to the special service. reports RIA Novosti They claim that the detained Russian citizen, born in 1980, was recruited by Ukrainian special services in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, in June 2022. After this, he allegedly underwent training and headed to the annexed Crimea, where on June 23, 2023, he blew up a gas pipeline in the village of Koreiz.

At least 833 people entered the most prestigious Russian universities under quotas for participants in the war in Ukraine and their children, calculated “Important Stories” . Most of them scored below passing grades on the Unified State Exam or did not take the exams at all. Journalists analyzed orders for admission to bachelor's and specialty programs for full-time study in 2023, which were published by August 9.

The Advokatskaya Street publication spoke with Anna Korobkova, who claims that from February 24, 2022 to August 7, 2023, she wrote 1,303 denunciations. According to her own words, as a result, 14 people were given administrative fines, six people were fired from their jobs, and two more received reprimands.

After the explosion at the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant in Sergiev Posad, 43 people were hospitalized in the local district hospital. The total number of victims reached 52 people. This was announced by the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov. He clarified that six victims are in intensive care with burns and traumatic brain injuries, and another 22 people were taken to the traumatology department with moderately severe shrapnel wounds. “There may be 5 people under the rubble.

The explosion in Sergiev Posad injured 60 people, and another eight are listed as missing. this TASS reports with reference to the head of the city district Dmitry Akulov. Earlier it became known about one death - a woman who was injured died in the hospital. The explosion on the territory of the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant occurred at about 11 a.m. Moscow time.

In the city of Borzya in the Trans-Baikal Territory, a memorial plaque will be installed on the playground in memory of local resident Vasily Lopatin, who died in the war in Ukraine. This is reported by “New Tab”. According to the publication, Lopatin served under contract in a tank unit in Borza since 2015. Previously, he took part in hostilities in Syria, and in March 2022 he died in Ukraine.

In Sergiev Posad, an explosion occurred on the territory of the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant. about this TASS writes with reference to emergency services. The telegram channel of the administration of the Sergiev Posad urban district reports that the enterprise has announced an evacuation from all buildings and workshops, including rented ones.

During the shelling of the village of Gorkovsky in the Belgorod region, one person was killed and four more were injured. This was announced by local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, five shells exploded in the center of the village near the school. Gladkov wrote that the deceased was a man who had shrapnel wounds that were incompatible with life. Three more men had shrapnel wounds to their lower extremities, and a woman had a concussion.